Citation

Eysenck HJ. Am. Psychol. 1950; 5(12): 678-678.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1950, American Psychological Association)

DOI

10.1037/h0061396

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Notes that the Council of Representatives of the APA adopted a resolution "that the editors of the APA journals be instructed to recommend to authors that they delete from manuscripts certain materials such as lengthy tables, detailed descriptions of procedure, instructions to subjects, individual protocols, and the like. This section of each article should be sent to the American Documentation Institute for preservation and circulation on request. The purpose of this recommendation is to increase the amount of material available to scholars." Having been able, if only at second hand, to see the results of this resolution, I would like to suggest that while it may succeed in its main purpose, it will almost inevitably have other results which must make anyone who is interested in the development of psychology as a science feel somewhat uneasy. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)